Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alleged to have got drunk and disorderly, to have broken up a dinner-dance, disrobed six of the town's debutantes, sacked the home of the-French governor-under the impression that it was a brothel-and put 38 soldiers in the hospital, there is never a hint of malicious mischief in their fun. A soft reprimand from Fonda is sufficient to calm the most riotous of them...
Economist Burns served notice that the Eisenhower Administration is ready to curb credit in housing, the stock market or automobiles to nip any speculative boom. Burns also tossed off a veiled hint that the prospect of tax cuts next year depends on a sharp cut in Government spending. Said he: "Balancing the budget is imperative in a time of high prosperity." Signs of high prosperity seemed to be everywhere last week...
...beau Wellington," she found tedious, goodhearted, generous. But when the duke spurned her dun ("Publish and be damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house...
...reports indicated that Candidate Stevenson has steeled himself to face any G.O.P. standardbearer, even if his name should be Eisenhower. An early hint of Stevenson's resolute state of mind came last month when he repudiated the proposal of his ex-national chairman, Stephen Mitchell, to saddle the South with an oath of party loyalty at the 1956 national convention. The point was not lost on Southern leaders. To them, Stevenson seems less immoderately liberal than the visible alternatives: New York's Harriman, Michigan's Williams, Tennessee's Kefauver...
...Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...